Brazil on Horseback: A Journey Through the Serra Gaúcha |
When in gaúcho country, BrazilMax does as the gaúchos. Join us on a cross-country horseback ride to view the waterfalls, rivers, and flat-topped Paraná pine tree forests of the Serra Gaúcha in Rio Grande do Sul.
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Serra da Abelha Ecological Reserve: Locals Protect the Forest |
Before it became fashionable to wed the interests of the environment to those of the poor, the members of the little community of Santa Cruz dos Pinhais had established a de facto barrier to logging by defending their homesteading rights as small subsistence farmers. Their battle continues.
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Bento Gonçalves: Living Museum of Italian Immigration in Brazil |
Adjacent to Brazil’s wine country is a living museum called the Caminhos de Pedra (Stone Trails). The name is derived precisely from the remarkable stone buildings built by settlers – many of which survive.
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Curitiba: Jaime Lerner’s Urban Acupuncture |
Urban planning icon Jaime Lerner fondly remembers the street where he lived as a boy. Such memories might be written off as mere nostalgia had Lerner not dedicated his professional life to recreating the human-scale urban environment he enjoyed as a youth.
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Curitiba, Brazil: Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization |
In little more than a generation, Curitiba has achieved renown as an attractive, prosperous, ecologically conscious and highly successful example of urban planning, a socioeconomic triumph among the larger Brazilian cities. Curitiba's reputation seems deserved, even if it is perhaps not quite one of the three most livable cities in the world, as an urban planning specialist from the University of California at Berkeley once ventured. An excerpt from the book Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization: The Case of Curitiba, the first major account in English of one of the most successful urban renewals of the 20th century.
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Maringá, Paraná: Shoppping in Fashion |
Our correspondent could hardly control himself: “You rarely find such quality and loveliness at such low prices.” Fashion paradise in Southern Brazil. Just one drawback: no plastic. Buy now or buy never.
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